Thread by @KaitlinCurtice

I don't have words today for everything happening.
So I'm going to share some lines from my new book #NativeBook that will name some of what is happening.
#GeorgeFloyd #AmyCooper

America cannot know itself if it doesn't recognize itself.
So, here we go:

"Genocide of Indigenous peoples, the slave trade, masters proclaiming salvific dominion over other human beings through the power of whiteness--these are elements that have led us to a white supremacist/individualistic faith, and we are separated from truly practicing community."

"As Christians in America, we so often want a quick and easy fix, an answer that we can put in our back pocket to pull out when things get tough.
But that's not how it works, especially when it comes to groups the church has oppressed."

" 'I see your story. I see your experiences. They matter. Let's decolonize together.' "

I wish we'd say this more to each other.

"My spiritual liberation is tied up w/ the spiritual liberation of all my relatives who face oppression, whose bodies are policed and told that they are less than-- are we not working to be liberated together?"
#NativeBook #GeorgeFloyd #icantbreathe

"...are our spirits not bound together to fight institutional injustices that have existed in America since its beginning? Everyone who joins in this space with us...is joining in the lifelong work of decolonizing."
#NativeBook

"So many of us have forgotten the way home, the way back to ourselves..."

The deep call home calls us to name the truth of the violence and hate this nation was founded upon, and to continue to name it every day that it is perpetuated in our day and age.